Nile blue

noun

1. pale greenish blue.

Nile blue

noun

1. 1. a pale greenish-blue colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      a Nile-blue carpet

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nile blue¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Its Bond animal rhino key tray comes in Nile blue, and is priced at $495.

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But in certain moods it is exhausting to resist the richness of Dempsey blue, a heartache shade of azure named for the firm of Dempsey & Carroll, or the cool beauty of the Nile blue sold by Smythson.

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Blue.—Methylene blue, new methylene blue, toluidine blue, thionine blue, indamine blue, Victoria blue, night blue, Nile blue, turquoise blue, marine blue, indoine blue, metamine blue, Capri blue, indazine, metaphenylene blue, paraphenylene blue, toluylene blue, indigene, indol blue, diphene blue, setopaline, setocyanine, setoglaucine, Helvetia blue.

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Niam, singers from, 301.Nile, see "White Nile," "Blue Nile."

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